Calendar blotting-pad



(No Model.)

H. O. WHITNEY.

CALENDAR BLOTTING PAD. No. 329,348. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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HOWARD OHAUNOEY WHITNEY, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

CALENDAR BLOTTlNG-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,348, dated October 27, 1835.

Application filed July 15, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD CHAUNOEY \VIIITNEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendar Blotting Pads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in calendar blottingpads, and is designed to furnish to the trade an article of stationery consisting of a base provided at one end with means for holding sheets of blotting-paper, and at the other end with a pocket to receive one cover of a book, as more fully hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim forming a part of this specification.

Referring to the accompanying drawings illustrative of my invention, Figure 1 repre sents a plan view of the same. Fig. 2 represents a similar View, the calendar memorandumbook being represented in its opened position. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged view, partly broken away, in central longitudinal section.

Similar letters of reference relate to similar parts throughout the several views.

A indicates a blotting writing-pad of a well-known form, provided with the usual co rner pockets for holding the sheets of blotting paper in place. The bottom or base of the pad has a continuation or adjunctive piece, B, upon whose upper surface is formed a pocket, 0, closed at one end and open at the other, and extending from the outer edge of the extension B to the edge of the pad A. The pocket 0 is adapted to receive and retain one of the covers D of a calendar memorandum-book. The leaves of this are printed in chronological subdivisions of time, commencing with the beginning of the year and continuing to its end, each day being allotted a separate space for the insertion of a memorandum. The upper cover D of the Serial No. 171,648. (No model.

book is provided with horizontal slots E F and an intermediate circular aperture, G. Upon its reverse side are located two revolving disks, H I, having, respectively, upon the outer portions of their circumferences the names of the days and those of the months in succession. The disks are so located with respect to the slots E F that upon revolving said disks the name of any day may be made to appear back of the slot E and the name of 'any month back of the slot F. Two pairs of leather, pasteboard, or other disks, L L and M M. are attached to the cover at opposite ends thereof, as shown, covering and securing in place the wire cross-pins N 0. Upon these pins is stretched the movable endless belt P, lettered upon its outer side with the first thirty-one cardinal numbers. The belt may be shifted at will, so that any one of these numbers may be seen through the aperture G. By means of the revoluble disks and the movable belt the current date may be readily indicated upon the upper surface of the memoranduinbook cover, as indicated in Fig. 1.

As thus constructed, my invention is particularly adapted for use of professional persons and others who are desirous of having at hand during their correspondence their memorandum-book entries and the time-calendar. The book may be readily replaced by another when exhausted by simply removing its cover from the pocket 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a combined blottingpad and book-holder, consisting of a base, B, provided at one end with means for holding sheets of blotting-paper and at the other end with a pocket, as described, to re ceive one cover of a book, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD CIIAUNCEY WHITNEY.

Witnesses:

A. D. SMITH, I GILBERT W. MINOR. 

